Hello and welcome to Spotlight – International Investment's first of a new regular series of curated video events featuring interviews and a hosted Q&A with fund managers, fund selectors and ESG product providers.
Participants in this Spotlight video feature (below) and Q&A session include David Harrison, Fund Manager for Rathbones Global Sustainability Fund, Eoin Fahy, Head of Responsible Investing and Chief Economist at KBI Global Investors, Chris Corkish, Investment Marketing Manager, RL360 and Austen Robilliard, Head of Investments, Murdoch Asset Management.
In the spotlight
Gary Robinson introduces this new regular series of Spotlight Q&A sessions across a range of topical investment themes
As with any investment world trend, the choice of investment solutions is vast and the need for a helping hand to select the right fund for the right investment profile has grown.
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Gary Robinson
Commercial Director, International Investment
INTRODUCTION
In this ezine we also speak to each of our sponsors direct about what makes them stand out in the world of sustainability and ESG investing.
Thanks for reading and viewing and keep an eye out on our website www.internationalinvestment.net for our next ESG Spotlight video premiere, which takes place on 23 March 2021.
RL360
RL360 outlines ESG proposition
KBI GLOBAL INVESTORS
KBIGI's Eoin Fahy on solutions
Keeping up with the ESG demand
RATHBONES
THE ADVISER'S VIEW
Scanning the globe
RL360 outlines ESG proposition
KBIGI's Eoin Fahy on solutions
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We invest in companies that are solution providers to global problems. For example, a company that has developed the technology to make water supply safer through better purification processes. Or it could be a company that developed a more efficient type of wind turbine that can generate clean energy
Eoin Fahy, Head of Responsible Investing, KBI Global Investors
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In the video above, Eoin Fahy of KBI Global Investors, explains how the company's preference for solution providers has underpinned strong sustainable returns.
Eoin Fahy is Head of Responsible Investing and Chief Economist at KBI Global Investors, an investment management firm based in Dublin, Ireland. Fahy joined what is now KBI Global Investors in 1988 and has had responsibility for economic views and forecasting ever since.
In more recent years Fahy has also headed up the firm’s Responsible Investing activities.
With such experience and longevity, KBI Global Investors is an acknowledged leader in this area and has been a member of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing since 2007.
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Responsible choices
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We believe that ESG factors are increasingly important to our clients when they are considering where we can invest their money. More and more investors, especially the young, want to make sure they're investing in funds that have the highest ESG-rating or invest in a responsible manner. With more and more opportunities becoming available, socially responsible investors have more choice than ever before
Chris Corkish, Investment Marketing Manager, RL360
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Chris Corkish outlines RL360's recently launched ESG proposition
Launched in the summer of 2020, RL360 introduced a series of measures designed to provide greater choice for those looking to invest responsibly, and also make it easier it for investors to assess how ESG friendly the funds that RL360 make available –through its guided architecture fund ranges – really are.
RL360 built the new sector across six broad themes; climate change, resources and energy, sustainability, human development, water and waste and funds that are multi-thematic.
There are 15 funds in the sector in total that have been analysed and reviewed in depth, using RL360's quantitative and qualitative review process, to ensure that they are appropriate and of the necessary quality.
The integration of the Morningstar Sustainability Rating complements the new sector by enabling advisers and plan owners to understand how the other funds in RL360's range are rated by reference to companies that they invest in.
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Responsible choices
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For our ESG Bond Fund and our Global Equity fund which is focused on ESG. The rationale is that we want to have that focused solution that works well and to apply that same sustainability framework to both funds… It serves our clients well
David Harrison, Fund Manager,
Rathbones Global Sustainability Fund
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In the video above, we speak to David Harrison, Fund Manager for Rathbones Global Sustainability Fund
David joined Rathbones in June 2014 as a Global Equity Analyst from private bank Julius Baer. He is the lead Fund Manager and Investment Analyst of the Rathbone Global Sustainability Fund.
David has a wealth of fund management experience, and is currently one of the managers of our Rathbone Heritage Fund and Rathbone Income Fund. He also supports David Coombs’ Rathbone Multi-Asset Portfolios (RMAPs), with direct equity selection. David has more than 14 years’ experience in equity analysis and fund management, including positions at Hermes and Goldman Sachs.
David holds the Investment Management Certificate and a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Politics from the University of Southampton. He is a CFA charter-holder.
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